|
|
Definition of Bilharzia
1. Noun. An infestation with or a resulting infection caused by a parasite of the genus Schistosoma; common in the tropics and Far East; symptoms depend on the part of the body infected.
Definition of Bilharzia
1. Noun. (medicine) The parasitic disease schistosomiasis ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Bilharzia
1. [n -S]
Medical Definition of Bilharzia
1. Disease caused by worms that parasitise people. Also called schistosomiasis. Three main species of these trematode worms (flukes)--Schistosoma haematobium, S. Japonicum, and S. Mansoni cause disease in humans. Larval forms of the parasite live in freshwater snails. The cercaria (form of the parasite) is liberated from the snail burrow into skin, transforms to the schistosomulum stage, and migrates to the urinary tract (S. Haematobium), liver or intestine (S. Japonicum, S.mansoni) where the adult worms develop. Eggs are shed into the urinary tract or the intestine and hatch to form miracidia (yet another form of the parasite) which then infect snails, completing the life cycle of the parasite. Adult schistosome worms can seriously damage tissue. The name bilharzia comes from that of the shortlived German physician Theodor Bilharz (1825-1862). (12 Dec 1998)
Lexicographical Neighbors of Bilharzia
Literary usage of Bilharzia
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The American Journal of the Medical Sciences by Southern Society for Clinical Investigation (U.S.) (1875)
"A Research concerning the "bilharzia ... better known, perhaps, by the name of
bilharzia ... bilharzia ..."
2. Monographic Medicine by William Robie Patten Emerson, Guido Guerrini, William Brown, Wendell Christopher Phillips, John Whitridge Williams, John Appleton Swett, Hans Günther, Mario Mariotti, Hugh Grant Rowell (1916)
"Spontaneous cure can only occur in the most favorable surroundings where fresh
infection can be prevented. 3. Trematodes (bilharzia ..."
3. A Practical treatise on urinary and renal diseases: Including Urinary Deposits by William Roberts (1866)
"(Med. Times and Gaz., 1855, I, p. 57.) II. bilharzia ... erected it into a separate
genus, which Cobbold has named bilharzia in honor of its discoverer. ..."
4. Tropical Medicine: With Special Reference to the West Indies, Central by Thomas Wright Jackson (1907)
"bilharzia disease is a chronic parasitic disease of man, endemic in certain ...
The parasite was subsequently named in honor of its discoverer, bilharzia ..."
5. Chemical and microscopical diagnosis by Francis Carter Wood (1909)
"The worms are found in small bronchiectatic cavities or in thick walled cysts.
bilharzia haematobia ... EMBRYO OF bilharzia ..."
6. A Text-book of the practice of medicine by Hobart Amory Hare (1907)
"TREMATODES bilharzia Disease.—bilharzia disease, or endemic ... 118 Male bilharzia
worm carrying the female, ..."
Other Resources:
